The UCF Report, Vol. 10 No. 10, November 4, 1987

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VOLUME 10, NUMBER 10
For Faculty and Staff
NOVEMBER 4,1987
Groundwork for the College of Business
The ceremony that makes it official, the construction of a new $9.1 million home for the College of Business, took place next to the College
of Engineering Building on Oct. 28. First to start dirt flying, left to right,
Provost Richard Astro; Rex Rokicki, project manager and principal in
the architectural firm of Vickery, Oversat and Awsumb; John Lowndes,
chairman of the Board of Visitors; Dale S. Jones; Richard R. Swann, for-
Art Complex gets BOR nod
for construction in 1988-89
The Board of Regents last week approved a three-year Public Education
Capital Outlay plan for the State University System that has UCF's Art Complex
funded for construction the first year with
a ranking of 22nd in a list of 32 items.
The Art Complex is budgeted for $7.48
million in 1988-89 and $690,000 for equipment in 1989-90. UCF's other first year
item on the list is $53,000 to hire architects to design remodeling of the Chemistry Building..
The PECO list for 1989-90 includes for
UCF Chemistry construction $699,000;
Howard Phillips Hall construction
$788,000; Humanities and Fine Arts Building remodeling from plans, through construction to equipping $940,000; the three
stages for remodeling the Administration
Building $726,000, and plans for expansion of the Computer Center $437,750.
The list for 1990-91 adds the equipping
of the Chemistry Building $70,000 and
construction money for expanding the
Computer Center $6,595,250.
A five-year capital improvement plan for
the SUS and each campus, also approved
the same day, included the PECO list and
other proposals.   Whether funds are
available to follow through on construction projects will be affected by what the
legislature does in its special session in
December when the services sales tax
again comes up for possible repeal, or
amendment. Future capital construction
in education depends upon the infrastructure trust fund established under the new
tax law.
An SUS five-year plan for enrollment
has UCF holding lower class enrollment at
2,379 through 1992-93. Upper level would
grow from 6,241 to 6,647 while the number
of graduate students would increase from
1,005 to 1,407 and those in doctoral programs from 30 to 86.
The board directed universities to do
more master planning for their area campuses at the university level, developing
greater specificity in objectives and
goals. UCF was praised by program consultants for doing an excellent job in its
engineering program with limited funds
and the consensus held that present engineering programs should be adequately
funded before any future additions or expansions.
The board authorized UCF to hire an architectural firm to design buildings for a
relocated Florida Solar Energy Center. It.
is expected to cost $3.9 million for expanded facilities when FSEC is moved to
the Brevard Community College campus
at Cocoa from Cape Canaveral. Architects will be chosen from a list approved
by the BOR.
A new format for the regents' meeting
opened with a consent agenda that
cleared the board of routine items, leaving
more time for a discussion agenda of
items that were still in the decisionmaking stage.
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First say to yourself what you would
be; and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
mer chairman of the Board of Visitors; UCF President Trevor Colbourn;
Joan Ruffier, chairman of the Board of Regents; Roy Reid, president of
Student Government; George E. Stevens, faculty representative; College of Business Dean Clifford L. Eubanks, and Charles Viola, vice
president of Southeast Operations, Aberthaw Construction Co. The
building is scheduled for completion early in 1989.
Dr. MICHAEL BASS
Network approved
between campus
and research park
A fibre optic network directly linking
Central Florida Research Park with UCF
has been approved by the park's governing Orange County Research and Development Authority.
Research Park Executive Director Richard W. Tesch said the network will be designed to accommodate data, voice and
video transmissions.
He said the initial cost will be $245,000,
but the system is designed to grow with
the two institutions. Local networks on
the campus and in the park will reach out
to connect individual buildings to the system.
The system will assist thejoint research
activity between the University and tenants of the park.
USCs Bass
named to head
UCF research
Dr. Michael Bass, chairman of electrical
engineering and electrophysics atthe University of Southern California, will assume
new duties as vice president for research
at UCF later this year. He was named to
the key post following a national search.
Well-known for his work in optically
pumped solid state lasers and studies in
infrared and pyroelectric devices, Bass
has been a member of the USC faculty
since I974.
He is the first recipient of USCs distinguished researcher award, has been an
invited lecturer in the Soviet Union, China
and Japan, and is listed \n_Who's Who in
the United States. He is a former general
chairman of the International Congress on
Applications of Lasers and Electro-
Optics, and is president-elect, Laser Institute of America.
BELIZE REPORT
The faculty team of Arlen and Diane
Chase will present a program, "Royal
Tombs and Peasant Labor: Maya Archaeology in Belize" for Sigma Xi, meeting in
the Administration Board Room on Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 3:30 p.m. Faculty and
graduate students are invited to attend,
David W. Washington, Sigma Xi president, said.